Welcome to Tsammalex

Tsammalex is a multilingual lexical database on plants and animals
including linguistic, anthropological and biological information as well
as images. It has been set up as a resource for linguists,
anthropologists and other researchers, language planners and speech
communities interested in the conservation of their biological
knowledge. In the current version, it is still focused on particular
geographical regions reflecting the interests of the present
contributors (Kalahari basin in Southern Africa, Dogon languages in West
Africa).

Lexical and biological data can be accessed directly (tabs
"Names" and
"Taxa", respectively)
or filtered for specific languages ("Languages")
or geographical regions ("Ecoregions"
),
with varying details. The tabs "References" and
"Images" include lists of sources and individual
images, while "Contribute!" provides more information,
especially for potential contributors.

Tsammalex has been developed by
Robert Forkel
and compiled by Christfried Naumann, Lena Sell, Noémie Jaulgey
and Kathrin Heiden. Significant amounts of data were added by
Jeffrey Heath and colleagues (Dogon Languages Project)
and edited by Steven Moran and Robert Forkel.
Another bulk of data has been imported from the Reference Lexicon of the languages of Africa
( RefLex) by Guillaume Segerer and S. Flavier.
Peter Fröhlich, Hans-Jörg Bibiko, Jan Klom and Stefan Koch were involved in
former versions of the database.

The content of this web site including the downloadable database, is published under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (unless stated otherwise).

Contributions and comments are highly appreciated! Read more information under "Contribute!".

All images and other data included in this database should be under creative commons license.
Sensitive information that may cause conflicts in communities or harm to their environment, or
that may threaten biological species (such as information about specific ways of killing animals
or detailed information on medical uses) must not be included here. Cultural knowledge should
not be published without the consent of the communities it belongs to.